Art In October: MA theory seminar with Steve Dixon
At the forefront of art criticism and theory, October focuses critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, media, photography, performance, sculpture, and literature. Examining relationships between the arts and their critical and social contexts, October addresses a broad range of readers. Original, innovative, provocative, each issue presents the best, most current texts by and about today's artistic, intellectual, and critical vanguard.
This workshop/seminar is founded on the close reading of a single essay from October magazine from within the last two years, and is meant to include essays from issues which have spoken to the important themes within the current critical atmosphere and which have had an impact on contemporary art theory and curatorial thinking. Theparticipantsare asked to read the essay before the meeting and be ready to discuss, as well as bring work (their own or others)or other “things or ideas” that meet the essay either tangentially or specifically. I will bring also more specific material (art or essays) which further elaborate the essays positions." The essays to be read are:
Week 38: “From Abstraction to Model: George Brecht’s Events and Conceptual Turn in the Art of the 1960’s” Julia Robinson October #127, Winter 2009
Week 41, “Remarks on Abstraction” Hubert Damisch October #127, Winter 2009
Week 47, “What’s in a Face? Blankness and Significance in Contemporary Art Photography.” October #122, Fall 2007.
Participants can read or copy the text from the library. If there is a problem with this may contact me (as the texts must be read before the meeting), and are asked to bring a copy with them to the seminar. The seminar times are Thursday afternoons during the above stated weeks, at 13:00 in the lecture room of the academy building (4th floor)
Please note that keep in mind this page as the forthcoming issue of October will be coming out this term, and we may wish to “dip into it” as well. You can see the essays that will be in this issue below:
October 129
The Spirit of Recession Paul Chan
Raymond Pettibon: After Laughter Benjamin H. D. Buchloh
Make-Believe: Parafiction and Plausibility Carrie Lambert-Beatty
The Third Citizen: On Models of Criticality in Contemporary Artistic PracticesVered Maimon
The Right to Opacity: On the Otolith Group’s Nervus RerumT. J. Demos
A Trialogue on Nervus Rerum The Otolith Group
To Sing Beside Yve-Alain Bois
Workform:
Reading, group discussion, presentation of work
Prequalifications:
Open to all MA students. Note: if you sign up for this seminar you must make a commitment to follow all of the sessions. This is one of the theory alternatives available to MA Art for academic year 2009 - 10.
The course starts 14/09/2009 / Week 38, and ends 20/11/2009 / Week 47
Location:
Kunstakademiet
Provider: MA kunst
Target group: MA Kunst
Target year of study: Alle årstrinn
Capacity:
16
Academic staff:
Steven Dixon / 31/08/2009
